Gordon on right on motorbike, presumably in the Western Desert. He has sergeant’s stripes, so sometime between July 1941 and May 1942.
Gordon Hines, Born 1918
SOLDIER, ENGINEER & PRISONER OF WAR
During WW2 Gordon Leslie Hines survived evacuation from Dunkirk, was captured in N Africa, spent several years in Italian prisoner of war camps before the country’s capitulation, was cattle trucked to Germany, spent time in Stalag 8b before finally being sent to a work party at an oil refinery in what is now Poland. As the Russians advanced westwards at the end of the war he was one of many thousands of Allied PoWs to endure the Long March, starting in January 1945 and ending near Nuremberg in April 1945, where he escaped from the marching column before being liberated by the Americans . He kept a diary of the March and the route , this prompted further research which has formed the basis of this story.
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This life story was written by Richard Hines, son of Gordon Hines. He contributed it to Lives Retold in 2021.